Hard drive installation Question.

[NastyNative]

Greetings,

Im currently running Vista 64 and I have a RAID setup (stripped)

Today I purchased a new 160gb WD sata drive to install ubuntu

Its been a while but I remember all i had to do was install the drive into the
machine and open up windows and format the drive..
For some reason its not showing in windows!
I went into the bios under RAID sata where I have both sata 1 and sata 2 enabled
and i enabled sata 3 which is the one its pluged in, but now I can only see it
on my Nvidia raid setup?

What is the proper way to install this drive.

board its an ABIT AN-M2

[nohelmets]

Have you checked Disk Management and confirmed that the drive is online?

[NastyNative]

disk management .. no I have not looked in there.

The drive only shows on the raid setup maybe I need to install it through
the raid setup?

I did look in Device manager and its not on there.
I also tried to install it throught "add hardware".. that didnt work either.

I will try diskmanagement ..
does any one else know its kinda like a n00bie questions.

The drive is a SATA only drive so its not like I can whip out my IDE cable..